[267] A reference to Æsop's Fable, Λέων και Ἀλώπηξ. Cf. Horace, "Epistles," i. i. 73-75.
[268] This passage is alluded to also in "On Love to one's Offspring." [§ ii.]
[269] Madvig's text.
[270] Thucydides, i. 18.
[271] Homer, "Iliad," ix. 323, 324. Quoted also in "On Love to One's Offspring," [§ ii.]
[272] The remark about Demosthenes has somehow slipped out, as Wyttenbach has suggested.
[273] Does this refer to Πηληίαδεω before Ἀχιλῆος in "Iliad," i. 1?
[274] An allusion to some passage in a Play that has not come down to us.
[275] Compare our Author, De Audiendis Poetis, § xi. ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀγησίλαοσ οὐκ ὑπέμεινεν ὑπὸ τοῦ καλοῦ φιληθῆναι προσιόντος.
[276] Reading with Madvig and Hercher, τὸ γὰρ αὺτὸν, sq.